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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...looks easy enough—merely the more or less coherent stringing together of a mass of memoranda. Nevertheless it was rare and diffi- cult, as is the high... ...s, in supplying omis- sions, in searching for papers buried in differ- ent masses, and all this besides the exertion of composing and polishing.’ He d... ... his own account leads to the infer- ence that he discarded, as worthless, masses of diverting material which would have tempted a less scrupulous wri... ...his twenty-fifth year. Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of a large and robust body, and of a strong and active mind; yet, as in the most solid rocks vein... ... at Oxford, and re- members well the effect which London pro- duced. Every body was delighted with it; and there being no name to it, the first buz of... ...e hand of the same side be applied to the breast, or any other part of the body, he cannot keep it a moment in the same posture, but it will be drawn ... ...replied, “Let me hear no more of him, Sir. That is the fellow who made the Index to my Ramblers, and set down the name of Milton thus: Milton, MR. Joh...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

... candle, lunged at the sleeper as though he would have run him through the body. 47 Little Dorrit ‘Who’s that? What’s the matter?’ cried the sleeper,... ...l, you were to come into this darkened room to look upon me lying dead, my body should bleed, if I could make it, when you came near me.’ In part reli... ...int of walking into the strong cells and the blind alley, while this some- body pretended to do his something: and made a reality of walking out again... ...n at a mock auction in Moorfields, pre- tending to buy plated articles for massive silver, and paying for them with the greatest liberality in bank no... ...nkled pair of trousers, a stiff pair of boots. He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and im- practicable. He seemed to have been sitting ... ...dge being to be found in his face, the Marshalsea key was as legible as an index to the individual characters and histories upon which it was turned. ... ...nd scented linen, with sleeked hair, a great ring on each forefinger and a massive show of watch-chain, Mr Blandois waiting for his dinner, loll- ing ... ...olling his eyes round the Chief Butler’s shoes without raising them to the index of that stupendous creature’s thoughts, had signified to him his inte...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...We have been forced to think about the way our government is organized.The massive departments and agencies that prevailed in the great struggles of t... ...1] headed toward Kennedy [airport in New Y ork City].They’re moving every- body out of the way.They seem to have him on a primary radar.They seem to t... ...state and state-sponsored terrorists,” and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile technology. 97 NORAD perceived the d... ...ances, the main concern was the use of such aircraft to deliver weapons of mass destruction. Prior to 9/11, it was understood that an order to shoot d... ...or war going on here, I heard about the Pentagon.W e’re at war . . . some- body’s going to pay.” 206 About this time, Card, the lead Secret Service ag... ... and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his message are ... ...7/04 4:14 PM Page 387 identifiers—digital photographs and prints of two index fingers—from travel- ers. False identities are used by terrorists to ... ...o and Firearms,” undated (online at www.atf.gov/pub/gen_pub/annualrpt/1995/index.htm); ATF report,“ATF Snapshot,” Jan. 30, 1998 (online at www.atf.gov... ...1: A Memorial,” updated 2004 (online at www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/index.html); company contacts, June 29, 2004 (online at http://worldtradeaf...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...pockets on one side of his coarse convict dress, are portions of the man’s body, on which he is regaling; in the pockets on the other side is an untou... ... small. We have a fine sea, whole some for all people; profitable for the body, profitable for the mind. The poet’s words are sometimes on its awful ... ... the government at home ought instantly to ‘take up.’ The British mind and body becoming heated by these fantasies, delirious answers are made to in ... ...den and our scraps of conversation car ried on in whispers. Above us, the massive iron girders of the arch were faintly visible, and below us its pon... ...penny, and of course a noble lord preserved it ever more. The treadle and index at the toll house (a most inge nious contrivance for rendering fraud... ...reditary Lords and Ladies—in the dominions of Prince Bull, among the great mass of the community who were called in the language of that polite countr... ...to the imperfect sewers of this overgrown city, you shall have the immense mass of corrup tion, engendered by these practices, lazily thrown out of s...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...sweated the flesh off your bones, and well-nigh fried the soul out of your body, you go home, to what?—three shillings a week and a puddn! Do you get ... ...L. No, not the snuff-box, but—a pinch of snuff,—ha! ha!—run me through the body if he didn’t. Could you but have seen the smile on Jack Churchill’s gr... ...ess, horseless, corporalless, with a gag in his mouth and a rope round his body, are we compelled to leave the gallant Galgenstein, until his friends ... ... have done. I can turn out a quo- tation from Sophocles (by looking to the index) as well as another: I can throw off a bit of fine writing too, with ... ... which had been hidden behind Westminster Abbey, rose above the vast black mass of that edifice, and poured a flood of silver light upon the little ch...

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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...ctly where he was. They were frightened to see what they knew would be the body of their best friend. Finally, they went down the cliff, and as they w... ...s about it for months. Every time they closed their eyes they saw his dead body lying there. The following Monday an announcement was made over the lo... ...d as part of the graduating class of 1998. Even though he was not there in body he was there in spirit. The saddest thing of all was the fact that aft... ...o are no longer with us After the tree is decorated we dress ourselves for mass. At ten o’clock we walk down the street to St. Michael’s church to att... .... At ten o’clock we walk down the street to St. Michael’s church to attend mass. When mass is ended we go home, and sing Christmas carols. My grandmot... ...move. It stands on its hind legs and reaches more than six feet high. This massive creature has to weigh at least four hundred pounds. This is happeni... ... of the first things you should learn to do is to make adequate use of the index found at the back of most textbooks. This is imperative when using a ... ...k. If you have a paper marked with a comma splice, you need to look in the index of your handbook for the words “comma splice” and turn to the pages i... ...ok for the words “comma splice” and turn to the pages indicated there. The index is also a good place to find source material for more information on ...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...lroad; that adroit and philosophic solitary was an ardent worker, soul and body, in that so much more than honourable movement, which, if atonement we... ...nly added two more flagstones, ponderous like their prede- cessors, to the mass of obstruction that buries the reformer *Gaudeamus: Carmina V agorum S... ...general law; what we really care for is something that they only imply and body forth to us. We know how history continues through century after centu... ...other of his characters. We should like to know what be- comes of the main body of the troop in the wood of La Saudraie during the thirty pages or so ... ...ory of trades or implements, with no more colour or coherence than so many index-words out of a dictionary? I do not know that we can say anything, bu... ...ithdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax.... ...ood neighbour as to be a bad subject; but no more poll-tax to the State of Massachusetts. Thoreau had now seceded, and was a polity unto himself; or, ...

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